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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
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Politico @politico.com · 18/06/2025
The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”
politico.com
Deseret News condemns Lee’s posts about Minnesota shooting
The editorial board of the Utah-based publication said the Utah senator cast a “poor light”’ on the Beehive State.
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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How D.C.'s failure to curb truancy fueled a surge in youth crime
District leaders linked school attendance to crime, but failure to reduce absenteeism in middle schools yielded the biggest youth crime surge in a generation.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“If their revenue is coming from fraud, what is their incentive to protect people? It feels like Meta is helping the scammers out.” www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...
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Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Emigration from Africa will change the world
As other countries age, they will need African youth
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum
The action is expected to come Thursday.
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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‘Crazy’: Forest Service cuts ignite fear, fury over wildfire risks
The Trump administration has slashed more than 10 percent of the agency’s workforce, with more layoffs expected.
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As someone who drinks a lot of lattes this is concerning..... www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Profile in cowardice, or something worse
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
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Small airline faces boycotts over deal to run deportation flights for ICE
Thousands have pledged to boycott Avelo Airlines over its new deal with Homeland Security.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2025
The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. Tell your Senator to reject this harmful legislation.
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Stop the SAVE Act
The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to vote no now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Remittances to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are up 14%-20% this year as migrants prepare for possible deportation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Threats Send Migrants Scrambling to Get Cash Out of the US
Central America is seeing a surge in money flows from migrant workers in the US who are spooked by Donald Trump’s threats to deport millions of them.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/04/2025
About 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from fossil fuels burned inside homes for things like heating, cooking and cooling. By replacing gas appliances with electric ones, you might be able to lower your contribution to climate change, and save your lungs. Here's what to know.
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Should I Replace My Gas Appliances With Electric?
They’re a big source of greenhouse gases. Here’s what to think about if you’re considering switching to electric.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/04/2025
Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, formerly headed by the Trump administration's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, called for the dismissal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reut.rs/4cjOM3m
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Analysts at Cantor, formerly headed by Lutnick, call for Kennedy's dismissal
The Cantor Fitzgerald analysts said in a note that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was "undermining the trusted leadership of health care in this country."
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filin...
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Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save America
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 20/03/2025
The change comes amid President Donald Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Britain issues travel warning for US
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Ameriviking @ameriviking1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A band in the UK just released this statement;
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Border Agents Use More Aggressive Tactics to Question Visa Holders, Tourists
In a string of recent cases, border authorities have detained U.S. tourist and work visa holders for lengthy periods after seemingly minor issues with their cases.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared. my signal: caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 19/03/2025
The independent group that governs high school athletics in Maine is challenging the Trump administration’s finding that it violated the federal law known as Title IX by permitting transgender girls to compete.
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Maine Principals’ Association challenges Trump findings over transgender policy
The nonprofit organization that governs high school athletics says it receives no federal funding and therefore cannot be in violation of Title IX.
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Most Bunker Hill students work while attending school, and many have families. These short programs are their main opportunity to participate in learning abroad, [biology professor Scott] Benjamin said."
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Autopsy reports are vague and contradictory. They describe women with evidence of trauma, including burns and electric shocks, all labeled natural deaths.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?”

So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” 

It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. 

I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
racial discrimination to the trump administration is when you offer admissions to anyone who isn’t white www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign
“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/03/2025
"“I had my birth certificate, a change of address from the US Postal Service — everything but my blood type and the kitchen sink — and I was told I could not register to vote,” Spencer said."
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Lydia @dallett.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Incredible reporting by @khadeejasafdar.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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The High-Pressure Tactics Attorney Gloria Allred Uses—On Her Own Clients
Women say the lawyer’s public image as a feminist crusader clashes with her persona behind the scenes, where they were pushed to settle sex-abuse claims.
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